# Mourning Ruby

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- Book: [Mourning Ruby](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-dunmore/mourning-ruby) ([Mourning Ruby.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-dunmore/mourning-ruby.md))
- Authors: [Helen Dunmore](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-dunmore)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4101-501-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2004-05-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

More than thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it by the bins in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself, and she and her husband Adam are about to experience the greatest tragedy parents can face. Like a Russian doll, this novel opens to reveal a brilliant richness of stories locked within. MOURNING RUBY is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory and history - both personal and public - about love, loss and mourning, and ultimately about the most important relationship in any novel - that of the reader to the writer.